NIIT Technologies Inc. Appoints Patrick Grubbs as Senior Vice President of Travel, Transport & Logistics Vertical

Appointment Strengthens NIIT's Travel Leadership Team and Renews Focus on Growth. End Quote

New York, NY (1888PressRelease) June 08, 2012 - NIIT Technologies Ltd. (NSE: NIITTECH), a leading IT solutions organization today announced the appointment of Patrick Grubbs as Senior Vice President for the Travel, Transport & Logistics (TTL) vertical at NIIT Technologies Inc. Most recently, Grubbs was the VP & Global Head of HCL AXON's travel business. He has more than 24 years of experience in the travel industry.

Commenting on the appointment, Lalit Dhingra, President, NIIT Technologies Inc. said, "We are happy to welcome Patrick into our leadership team. With the significant success in our travel business, we look forward to an even more successful year under Patrick's leadership." As Senior Vice President, Grubbs will be responsible for managing and developing the travel business for NIIT in the Americas market. "I look forward to contributing to NIIT Technologies' already strong travel business," said Grubbs. "It will be exciting to offer customers our expertise as well as the wide range of our capabilities o deliver exceptional value. My focus in the coming months will be to grow the travel business and continue to focus on delivering value to our customers."

Grubbs holds a Master of Business Administration from SMU's Edwin L. Cox School of Business in Dallas, Texas and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Previously, he worked with Oracle, Sabre Holdings, American Airlines and United Parcel Service.

About NIIT Technologies

NIIT Technologies is a global IT solutions organization, servicing customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Solutions, Managed Services and Business Process Management to organizations in few select industry segments with dominant share in Travel and Transport. NIIT Technologies follows the higher standards of operations which includes ISO 9001:2008 certification, assessment at Level 5 of both SEI-CMMi version 1.2 and People-CMM frameworks, ISO 27001 information security management certification. Its data centre operations are assessed at the international ISO 20000 IT management standards.

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